Patch management systems are among the hottest products in the security industry. These systems attempt to provide the ability to deliver critical patches in less time to complex and distributed systems. Patch management is critical to reducing exposure to worms, bots, malware, cracking, and the loss of data, identity, or dollars that results.

More effective patch management is a vital component in the anti-worm defense in depth toolkit.

How effective is Patch Management against the spread of worms?

Vulnerabilities that allow worms to spread continue to be discovered in dozens of critical and widespread systems including Windows, web servers, databases, and others. If patching were perfect, these holes still exist before you know about them, before your vendor knows about them -- but not always before a cracker knows.

Improved patch management can help reduce exposure, but it can't help one iota against "zero day" attacks. A Zero Day worm exploits a vulnerability which was either previously unknown to the vendor of the vulnerable system, or for which a patch hasn't yet been produced.

Recently worm construction toolkits have appeared on the internet which allow worms to be crafted so quickly they are sometimes released the same day as the vulnerability is announced -- exposing the internet to a Zero Day worm outbreak.

FireBreak AntiWormIntrusion Suppression System

No definitions required! FireBreak doesn't need to know about a worm in advance in order to alert you to an outbreak.

FireBreak is appliance based -- no need to install software on all your desktop PC systems.

FireBreak AntiWorm does not need heuristics to detect and impede zero-day worms.

FireBreak will not only identify infected systems but will also actively impede the progress of the worm.

AntiVirus vendors require an average of two days to produce, test and release definitions for new worms. FireBreak gives you a two-day head start.

The FireBreak Intrusion Suppression System is the only system that helps protect against Zero Day worms without the risk of business disruption.